Jazzinstitut Darmstadt

from: Jazzinstitut Darmstad
30 November - 13 December 2017

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Siegwulf Turek remembers meeting Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 ( Nachrichten). --- The German trumpeter Till Brönner excels as photographer shooting a photo session with lingery model Hana Nitsche ( Focus). Alexander Gumz hears Till Brönner and the Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer in Berlin ( Berliner Morgenpost). And Matthias Hanselmann talks to Till Brönner ( Deutschlandfunk Kultur). --- Ulrich Habersetzer hears pianist Herbie Hancock in Munich, Germany ( BR-Klassik). --- Thomas Klingebeil talks to the American-German singer Bill Ramsey ( Neue Westfälische). --- Evi Eck-Gedler reports about the 60th anniversary of the jazz club in Lindau, Germany and talks to some long-time members ( Schwaebische). --- Giovanni Russonello reports about QWest TV, a new streaming portal to be launched 15 December by Quincy Jones featuring both concert films and documentaries about jazz ( New York Times). --- Kyle Mullin talks to the drummer Antonio Sanchez ( The Beijinger). --- Corinne Boyer reports about the jazz scene in Eugene, Oregon, and talks to the saxophonist and jazz historian Carl Woideck, the pianist Torrey Newhart, the local jazz society's president Ted Ledgard, the saxophonist Idit Shner and others ( Eugene Weekly). --- Mirko Weber talks to the German pianist and singer Olivia Trummer ( Stuttgarter Zeitung). --- Rolf Stein talks to the German pianist and singer Johanna Borchert ( Kreiszeitung). --- Elisa Glöckner talks to the German trumpeter Rüdiger Baldauf ( Augsburger Allgemeine). --- Jonas Böker talks to the German drummer Wolfgang Haffner ( Bonedo). --- Andreas Haupt talks to the German clarinetist Reimer von Essen ( Frankfurter Neue Presse ). --- Susan Lewis talks to the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis about his latest violin concerto ( WRTI).

Obituaries
We learned of the passing of the singer Ruth Williams at the age of 92 ( Philadelphia Inquirer), the saxophonist Alexander Evans at the age of 65 ( Philadelphia Tribune), the drummer Sunny Murray at the age of 81 or 82 ( Spin , Pitchfork, Le Monde), the jazz scholar David Cayer at the age of 89 ( New Jersey Star-Ledger), as well as the guitarist Mundell Lowe at the age of 95 ( San Diego Reader, San Diego Union-Tribune).


Last Week at the Jazzinstitut
Together with the music (jazz) and the musicology department of Mainz University we staged the 6th Mainz JazzTalk last week focusing on the approach of British historian Eric Hobsbawm to telling jazz history and how it can be seen as a model for today's "new jazz studies". The lively discussion with musicologists Thorsten Hindrichs and Mario Dunkel as well as historian Andreas Linsenmann was moderated by the journailist Sabine Fallenstein and framed by live music performed both by students and teachers at the Mainz jazz department ( Echo Online).

The legendary German pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach performed at the Jazzinstitut's concert space as part of his annual "Winterreise" tour with saxophonist Evan Parker and drummer Paul Lytton. In between sets, Schlippenbach told the audience about what makes Thelonious Monk special - in general as well as for him -, about the importance of freedom for his own musical aesthetic, as well the impression a folk singer made on him as a kid growing up in Upper Bavaria.

Doris Schröder and Rolf Schäfer are preparing a new exhibition to be shown from mid-January focusing on the history of the bass in jazz. The centerpiece will be a loan from the German Jazz Museum association, the last electric bass played by Eberhard Weber ( Galerie im Jazzinstitut).

A new book about Frankfurt tells the city's history along 100 artifacts presented at its Historic Museum. One chapter is dedicated to Carlo Bohländer's trumpet which is on show as a loan from the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt and which stands for the long and lively jazz tradition of the Rhein-Main area ( Societäts-Verlag).

The next edition of our JazzNews will be out by the end of this year. We hope all of you will spend the holidays peacefully with family and friends. If you find the time go and listen to some jazz, best in concert, because jazz is live music, always. We wish you happy holidays!

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